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Work at DLA Piper

We are committed to attracting, developing and retaining the best people across our practice and business services groups. Our continued success relies on our ability to provide a supportive, inclusive and motivating environment where everyone has a role to play in supporting the delivery of outstanding service to our clients.

We offer exceptional career opportunities to our lawyers, aspiring graduates and business support professionals, in an environment that is challenging, rewarding and, we believe, truly different from our competitors.

We are looking for highly talented people who can demonstrate an affinity with our values to help us achieve our vision of becoming the leading global business law firm. In return, we offer a dynamic and diverse environment in which people can build a long and fruitful career and have their success rewarded.

To find out more about opportunities in the country you would like to work, please select the relevant region from the menu on the left.

Opportunities in Romania

2017 Summer Student Programme

Are you a law student in the last phase of your studies and are you interested in finding what it's like to work for a big international law firm? You are more than welcome to join us for the 2017 Summer Student Scheme.

Professional staff information

The firm is committed to recruiting, hiring, training, employing, promoting, compensating and administering all terms, conditions and privileges of employment without regard to age, sex, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other consideration protected by federal, state or local laws.

DLA Piper is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, or Protected Veteran status.

Department of Homeland Security's E-Verify Program
DLA Piper participates in the Department of Homeland Security's E-Verify employment verification process. For more information on this program please see the links below.

Benefits

We provide a comprehensive benefits program that allows you to choose the coverage that meets your individual and family needs. In addition to core benefits such as medical, dental, life and disability insurance, and retirement plan with 401(k), we provide a number of other benefits, such as:

Asia Pacific

Asia

China - Summer internship programme

To start your career with us, we are offering the opportunity to secure an internship, to give you an insight into what life is like at DLA Piper.

We offer students the chance to join our summer internship programme. You'll meet a range of people across the firm, participate in a variety of talks and social events, enabling you to get a clear insight into who we are and what we do.

DLA Piper in Shanghai and Beijing offer the opportunity to experience our different practice groups:

Corporate

Intellectual Property and Technology

Finance and Projects

Employment

Litigation and Regulatory

Real Estate

Tax

What we look for

Our people come from a diverse range of backgrounds. We don't have a set profile for our lawyers - that's what sets us apart. Not only does this allow us to serve our diverse clients better; it opens up a range of different and unique perspectives.

You will need a strong academic record, and a real passion for developing a career as a lawyer. But it goes further than that. Among other things, we'll be looking for candidates who are naturally inquisitive, have plenty of drive, and can show a genuine commitment to their chosen career path. Your personal qualities will be important too. If you can provide tangible examples of your abilities in these areas, you'll have a greater chance of success.

LEADERSHIP: Takes control and initiates action by giving direction and taking responsibility.

CREATIVITY: Applies creativity to develop new and innovative solutions.

TEAMWORK: Works effectively with individuals and teams, and provides a consistent role model for organisational values.

ANALYSIS: Gets to the heart of complex issues and problems through clear analytical thinking.

2017/2018 Internship Program

Summer internship (full-time in July and August 2017)

Selected summer interns will be invited to the post-summer internship (September 2017 - June 2018)

Candidates with exceptional performance during the internship period would be offered an employment opportunity with DLA Piper after their graduation in 2018.

Requirements

PRC top tier law school students who will graduate in 2018

Available for full-time internship during the 2017 summer vacation and the 2017/18 school year

Ability to commit to a minimum of three months

Excellent command of English

Strong communication and organization skills

Application submission deadline

15 May 2017

All applications will be dealt with in strict confidence. Applicants who do not hear from us within 6 weeks may consider their applications unsuccessful. Unsuccessful application materials will be destroyed within 6 months from the date of application.

Building your Career

Our people are at the very heart of our business; that's why we are committed to ensuring everyone has access to the learning, development and experiences they need to progress their careers with us.

Our approach is based on a mutual commitment between our people and the firm. We encourage our people to take responsibility for their career development needs, whilst providing them with the support they need to do this.

This extends to developing skills in areas beyond conventional business activities. We believe in living our core values and investing in our communities – by giving something back we are helping to shape a better future for them. Our people tell us that investing in the community has helped them develop professional skills and engage more fully with the wider environment.

Diversity and Inclusion

We promote a culture that is inclusive of all; where everyone has the opportunity to grow their career, and where pathways to success are transparent.

Fostering diversity, inclusion and equality allows us to hire the best talent, build the most effective teams, deliver the highest level of client service and be effective contributors to our local communities.

Learning and Development

Investment in the careers and reputations of our people is one of the core values behind everything we do. Our development programmes demonstrate the real commitment we make to all our people.

Our award-winning International Learning and Development Curriculum has been developed to support the increasing needs of our people as they look to further their careers, whilst supporting our clients; wherever they operate around the world. This includes a range of activities internationally, regionally and locally.

All employees have access to formal training courses – ranging from technical courses, business, systems and skills training, to continuing legal education. Our award-winning International Career Academies provide our lawyers and business support professionals with an opportunity to learn and enhance professional skills at key stages of their careers, whilst meeting colleagues from across the firm and growing their personal networks.

Coaching and mentoring are well-established forms of personal and professional development here at DLA Piper and we have a number of programmes to support the many varied requirements of our people.

Global Mobility

We are committed to providing our people with the opportunity to experience an international secondment. Secondments provide a huge number of benefits to our clients, our business and of course, to our people, and are critical to our success.

In recent years the number of our people moving internationally and into new and emerging markets has increased – proof of our ability not only to react to the ever-changing market and provide our clients with the right people, the right skills, wherever they operate around the world, but also our expanding global reach.

Living and working in a new location and experiencing a new culture with different ways of working provides fantastic career development opportunities. We believe our approach to secondments fosters a global mindset and supports knowledge-sharing – enabling our people to work collaboratively across borders.

We are embarking on the second year of our innovative Global Mobility, which provides six-month exchange opportunities to those looking to gain experience of working across borders alongside their peers.

We have a dedicated Global Mobility team in place to support all secondments.

Flexible Lawyers

We are establishing a pool of flexible resources, comprised of alumni and friends of the firm to address client needs for greater agility in our service model, and to provide greater opportunities for key talent who want to work differently.

In doing so, we are partnering with the market leading 'Lawyers On Demand' (LOD) to help us grow and manage this.

This solution is different from any existing service because it will provide a broader range of assignments, flowing from both DLA Piper (both working as part of matter teams and filling excess client secondment needs) and LOD's own corporate client roster, all managed by the same point of contact. This will provide flexible lawyers with a plentiful selection of attractive assignments, whilst minimising their administrative burden.